Desires can make you sing at the top of your lungs, and they can also throw you off of a cliff into the darkness but wherever you are, they will always encourage you to view everything that can be found around you. Wants will produce a smile upon your face when you…

How far we feel from the home within us depends upon what we are feeling on the inside and if that connection seems to have been lost, it’s hard to imagine ourselves as being capable of getting through anything even when we really, really want to. Hope is the desire…

Imagine that you are writing a story about an ordinary individual whose goal is to finally defeat a specific dragon so that he or she can return home to live a desired life. Think about how that person never envisioned being held for such an extended time by that…

Stories are never written without the personas having a goal or two because the lack of a dream would seem like those characters were endlessly adrift without the sail of hope and no matter what, we want to cheer and feel empowered through those make-believe…

Every story has implicit messages that tell what the author’s understanding of the world is but what they write may not be what someone else understands from it just as what one person says may not be what is heard by another. We ourselves apply our own view of life…